Archive | April, 2010

How do you say it? Part Three

Let’s be honest. When you hear that a missionary is coming to speak at your church what is the first thing that comes to your mind? “It would be a good day to volunteer in the nursery?” Do you have mental images from your childhood of missionaries wearing interesting clothing and bringing their slides and [...]

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What to Say? Part Two

On my last post I noted some examples from scripture about conversations that seemed to have happened between the worker and the church. Telling stories of the work To let the church know how the workers are doing Encouragement to the worker To give encouragement to the church Received them in joy and honor To [...]

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What to say? Part One

Last week I wrote about “How do you report back home?” This week I want to take a quick look at “What do you say once you are there?” David Hesselgrave in Planting Churches Cross-Culturally wrote regardless of how you deliver the message (we will get to that one the next post) we need to [...]

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Returning Home

A few weekends ago  I was sitting in a church service and a couple of missionaries gave a report about their work in a  far off land. They had normal clothes on. I remember going to church as a kid and seeing how they dressed when they came back to report to the church. Well [...]

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Italy – a new exhibit in the Gallery

This month I want to highlight some photos  in Italy. This is from a friend who lives and works there.  I hope you will take a moment to check out this showing in my gallery. If you have an interest in partnering in Italy please let me know.  I believe God is doing some great [...]

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